Famous Vert Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Vert poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous vert poems. These examples illustrate what a famous vert poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Coming Of Arthur

...stainless wife to Gorlos, 
So loathed the bright dishonour of his love, 
That Gorlos and King Uther went to war: 
And overthrown was Gorlos and slain. 
Then Uther in his wrath and heat besieged 
Ygerne within Tintagil, where her men, 
Seeing the mighty swarm about their walls, 
Left her and fled, and Uther entered in, 
And there was none to call to but himself. 
So, compassed by the power of the King, 
Enforced was she to wed him in her tears, 
And with a shameful swiftness:...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord


Astrophel and Stella

...n Stellaes face I reed
What Loue and Beautie be; then all my deed
But copying is, what in her Nature writes. 
IV 

Vertue, alas, now let me take some rest;
Thou setst a bate betweene my will and wit;
If vaine Loue haue my simple soule opprest,
Leaue what thou lik'st not, deale thou not with it.
Thy scepter vse in some old Catoes brest,
Churches or Schooles are for thy seat more fit;
I do confesse (pardon a fault confest)
My mouth too tender is for thy hard bit.
B...Read more of this...
by Sidney, Sir Philip

Les Fenêtres

...Du rouge au vert tout le jaune se meurt
Quand chantent les aras dans les forêts natales
Abatis de pihis
Il y a un poème à faire sur l'oiseau qui n'a qu'une aile
Nous l'enverron en message téléphonique
Truamatisme géant
Il fait couler les yeux
Voilà une jolie jeune fille parmi les jeunes Turinaises
Le pauvre jeune homme se mouchait dans sa cravate blanche
Tu soulèveras l...Read more of this...
by Apollinaire, Guillaume

On a Line From Valery (Gulf War)

...Tout le ciel vert se meurt
Le dernier arbre brûle.

The whole green sky is dying. The last tree flares
With a great burst of supernatural rose
Under a canopy of poisonous airs.

Could we imagine our return to prayers
To end in time before time's final throes,
The green sky dying as the last tree flares?

But we were young in judgment, gray in hairs
Who could make peace; ...Read more of this...
by Kizer, Carolyn

Sonnet XIII: Phoebus Was Judge

...e arms the fairest were: 
Jove's golden shield did eagle sables bear, 
Whose talons held young Ganymede above: 

But in vert field Mars bare a golden spear, 
Which through a bleeding heart his point did shove: 
Each had his crest; Mars carried Venus' glove, 
Jove in his helm the thunderbolt did rear. 

Cupid them smiles, for on his crest there lies 
Stella's fair hair, her face he makes his shield, 
Where roses gules are borne in silver field. 

Phoebus drew wide the curtains...Read more of this...
by Sidney, Sir Philip


Without The Wherewithall

...rlet on a canvas alabaster page.

Simulacrum more real than reality itself,

Should reality exist in cyberspace.

My Pr?vert, my Nerval, I never thought to see

So handsomely orthographed, like Li Po scrolled

In Chinese water by a blue pagoda.

Indeed if anyone could write in troubled water

It would be you, my dearest daughter.

Whether this world will grant you a living

Only time’s indifference and your subtle craft will tell,

Artists like poets live on other’s bounty, a...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

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